Started in 2005 as a national poetry festival in Kerala, the Kritya festival turned international in 2007. Says Rati: “The first international festival was held in Kerala.” Essentially a ...

How do you write about the life of a man who was “all his life… patiently learning how not to live at all”? Poet, critic, translator, and teacher — Ayyappa Pani ...

Pariksha Pe Charcha 2025: During the Pariksha Pe Charcha event, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was pleasantly surprised when a ...

One of the most noted poets of Malayalam, Sugathakumari was born in Aranmula on 3 January 1934. She is the recipient of many awards, including the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award (1968), Kendra ...

Poets from Southern states Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Western states Gujarat and Maharastra, recited their poems in their mother tongue. In addition to that the Sindhi and Konkani poets ...

Jeet Thayil turns a mirror to the country and himself in his new book. Gandhi is reborn as a house gecko, the government is fake and his love grows wings and flies away.